Window-screen.



ATORNEYS'.

PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

P. BLIEZER. WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.16.190B.

WITNESSES UNITED PIERRE ELIEZER. OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed August 15, 1906. Serial No. 330.669.

To all whmn it nut/y concern.-

Be it known that I, PIERRE ELIEZER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, county of Passaic, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVindow-Screens; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to window-screens; and it has for its principal object to provide a screen which while proof against the admission of flies, mosquitos, and other insects will not only be adjustable to various widths of window-casings, but also bodily removable therefrom, as well as adapted to be raised and lowered in suitable guides pro vided therefor.

My invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an inside view of a windowcasing, showing my improved window-screen. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation of the screen removed from the window-casing, and Fig. 5

is a top plan view of one of the guideplates.

In the drawings, a is a window-casing having the usual side stop-beads b for the sash c, and (Z is a screen comprising the usual rectangular frame e and netting f. T o the stopbeads I attach grooved guides g, which are simply strips of metal bent longitudinally into U form, as best shown in Fig. 3. To the screen are attached metallic guide-plates h. In order to form these guide-plates, I take an elongated blank of sheet metal and bend it longitudinally to form a rib '2', of V shape and projecting inwardly, (see Fig. 3,) whereby to stiffen the blank and affording a handhold for moving the guide-plate later.

ally. This leaves a flange j at what may be termed the outside edge of the guideplate, and between said rib and the sash and inside edge of the guide-plate I form horizontal slots Ya. I furthermore bend the top end portion Z of the guide-plate over at right angles, the depth of such bent-over portion being substantially equal to the thickness of the screen. The guide-plate may be formed from the blank in the above manner by stamping it out or otherwise.

m designates thumb-screws which are set in the screen and whose shanks project through the slots 7c. WVhen the screen is arranged as shown in Fig. 1, where the guide plates appear attached to the frame of the screen and have their flanges extending into the guides g the screen may be raised and lowered in the window-casing, and when in its closed or lowermost position even such openings as might otherwise be formed between the guide-plates and the sash c are shut off by the portions Z of the guide-plates. By manipulating the screws m the screen may be removed from the window-frame upon collapsing the same laterally by moving one or both of the guides toward each other. The adjustable arrangement of the guide plates it also permits of adapting the screen to various widths of window-frames, as will be obvious.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the window-casing,

the screen, laterally-adjustable guide-plates attached at each side, and to the inside face, of the screen and squarely against the same, the outer edges of said guide-plates projecting beyond the screen, and grooved guides attached to the sides of the casing and receiving said edges of the guide-plates, said guide-plates having their upper end portions bent over the top of the screen and extending, for substantially the whole width of said guide -plates, substantially commensurate with the thickness of the screen, whereby said end portions cooperate with the sash at the sides of the screen to close openings that would otherwise there exist, and said guideplates also having longitudinal strengthening-ribs but being otherwise substantially flat throughout, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of August, 1906.

PIERRE ELIEZER. Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, n. D. BELL. 

